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Fight for $15 Protest in Montréal, May 1, 2018. Photo by Mostafa Henaway. Across cities in North America and here in Montréal, Québec, a new type of labour movement has begun to emerge. That movement is the ‘fight for $15’ and […]

Remaining House in Beira Rio, after neighboring houses were demolished. Photo by Natalie Southwick. Source: http://www.rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Island-of-homes-in-Beira-Rio-e1531319776658.jpg As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes […]

Student Maribel Meza addressing the assembly, San Miguel Analco. Photo by Marie Kennedy. [In part one of this article, the meaning of transformative community planning for community development was explored, highlighting the importance of vesting decision-making in the people most […]

Unleashing the creative energy of ordinary people wherever we work in the world. Photos by Marie Kennedy. INTRODUCTION Transformative community planning is a way of working with communities across divisions. It is not based on the superficial pasting together […]

Photo by Lisa Berglund The 48217 zip code of Detroit is considered the most polluted zip code in Michigan. This fact was discovered by public health scholar-advocates concerned with environmental justice in this majority Black city. Many residents of 48217 […]

Abolition is a movement that seeks to end prisons, police, and border walls. Why? They are institutions of war built on colonial and capitalist legacies of indigenous, Black, brown, Asian and poor violence. They only produce violence and need to […]

Calls for a “new localism” abound these days. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, many liberal and progressive commentators have been claiming that cities are the new “nodes of resistance”. Richard Florida, influenced by Benjamin Barber’s If Mayors Ruled the […]

Photo Credit: homesforall.org During the 1990s, after decades of disinvestment, white flight and suburbanization, American cities once again became sites of large-scale capital investment. The resulting waves of gentrification[1] and displacement spurred the formation of new social movements, including many that […]

We write as part of a group of 17 UCLA graduate students in Architecture, Public Policy, and Urban Planning who co-facilitated a course, “Abolitionist Planning in Today’s Political Conjuncture.” In a political moment in which a new state “fully committed […]

Image: A strip mall in the Albion & Islington area in Rexdale, Toronto, 2014. As a landing pad for newcomers, the City of Toronto touts its diversity, which is most visible in Toronto’s inner suburbs. In 2016, 51.5 percent of […]

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor City & Metropolitan Planning University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT The Department of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin in Fall 2019. […]

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor in […]

*The submission deadline for Critical Planning Volume 25: Social Justice and Planning has been extended to 11:59 PM PDT on June 15, 2018. Please contact us at critplan@gmail.com <critplan@gmail.com> with any questions.* https://criticalplanning.squarespace.com/ Thank you, The *CPJ *Editorial Team *Volume 25: Social […]